This interests me very much. Arduino seems to be quite the jack of all trades and it certainly is starting to show its diversity of functionality in the cnc world. I was going to try and make a torch height controller with ardiuno but then i looked it up just out of curiosity and there are already people who have got it setup and running as there THC on there plasma tables, beat me too it lol :) Good stuff!
Keep up the good work, and i also am looking forward to some docs on your project :) Jake On 10/12/2010 07:11 PM, William Baden wrote: > Great job! Am looking forward to documentation. > > Will Baden > > >> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:31:11 -0400 >> From: ckingsb...@gmail.com >> To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [Emc-users] Arduino as MPG and DRO for EMC >> >> Just thought I'd share a quick update on my project to build an >> Arduino-based control pendant for EMC. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flajZMff28U >> >> This video shows an Arduino communicating with EMC and functioning as both >> an MPG and remote DRO. I will be publishing more details along with source >> code over on my blog at http://ckcnc.wordpress.com as I get the various >> loose ends more tied up. In the meantime I am starting to feel like this is >> approaching robustness. The serial protocol may need a little more work to >> ensure that things either can't get out of sequence, or that it can recover >> from such events without requiring a reset. Otherwise it seems to run >> happily at 9600bps. The DRO is limited to update 10x/sec to avoid saturating >> the line. As a human-machine interface, things seem to be real-timey enough >> to function effectively. >> >> In this setting, I think the only limitation on the number of I/O signals is >> the Arduino's memory and processing power. I am using 7.3k of the 16k flash, >> and I don't know how much of the SRAM and CPU. Most of that is going to the >> LCD and encoder-reading functions. With 6 outputs to drive the LCD, I have >> 10 left over, which could theoretically support a 25-key matrix. With all >> the room on the LCD, I'm curious to see how much more I can squeeze in, >> e.g., by adding multiple pages to the display. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports >> standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2& L3. >> Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great >> experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2& L3. > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
